Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun braxton-hicks_contraction

1 sense of braxton-hicks contraction

Sense 1
Braxton-Hicks contraction, false labor -- (painless contractions of the muscles of the uterus that continue throughout pregnancy with increasing frequency)
       => contraction, muscular contraction, muscle contraction -- ((physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber))